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‘Lwr_':_-' » ~.:~rs,7 ‘ Home holds sentimental value There is much sentimental value connected in the home Gary Haws of RR 8, Picton purchased last year. Besides the thrill of owning his first home, it also happened to be the renovated school house, S. S. No. 12 Hallowell, IUnion Vale), where four generations of his family had attended elementary school. They included his great- great-grandfather, Almon Reynolds. his great-grandfath- er, Byron Reynolds. his grand- father D. O. Reynolds, and his mother, Mrs. Lionel Haws, the former Almona Reynolds, as well as. his great-great- grandfather, Hiram Vincent and his great-grandmother Mrs. Byron Reynolds, the former Viola Vincent. Having purchased the home. Mr. Haws became interested in the histor of the school. He tound tha all his maternal grandfathers had acted as school trustees at one time. as well as his uncle, George Reynolds, who still resides at RR 8, Picton. He learned that the first school was built upon the present site and was burned before 1866. The land belonged to the estate of Benjamin Simpson at one time. His greatâ€"great-uncle, Finley Vincent had recalled incidents concerning the school for the years 1865 to 1940, which is recorded in the general register of the school. In 1865, Mr.‘Vincent had just started to school, and recalled that the grounds were enclosed by a rail fence which was later removed and replaced by a board fence with a slanting board ontop, which later was re laced with a wire fence. he seats at the time faced the wall and the pupils sat upon a long continuous plank. To leave their seats it was necessary to swing the legs over the plank and turn towards the centre of the room. in the middle of the floor were two long moveable seats with high backs. There were only two windows to a side and the girls were seated on one side of the room with the boys on the other. Punishment at the time was administered by means of a -nearby woods to cut a Christmas season were This home owned by Gary Haws of RR 8 Picton was once the SS No. l2 Hallowell school where members of his family attended and some taught. switch. If none was present the teacher often sent a boy to the blue beech. Among the teachers, who were relatives of Mr. Haws were: Rose Reynolds, sister of Almon Reynolds. who taught Finley Vincent; Rev. Milton Williams, who taught Lillian, Reynolds, sister of Byron Reynolds, and whom he later married; Prof. Harold King. ston, nephew of Byron Reynolds, taught Clifford Vincent; and Etha Reynolds. daughter of Byron Reynolds, who is now retired and reSides on Gladstone Avenue in Picton. Miss Hazel McLellan, who also still resides in Picton, taught the school for thirty years from 1965. Upon her he was honored by a party at the new Pinecrest School where many of her to pay tribute to 'her. She had taught faithfully in the school for so many years. Mrs. William Cross, RR 8, Picton was the school custodian and helpmate during all the years Miss McLellan taught there. One of the highlights of iiie e Christmas concerts put on by the pupils under the direction of Miss McLellan. The school room would be filled to capaCity by parents and friends who eagerâ€" ly looked forward to this event each year. The school was also used for. holding Sunday School .and church services. A minister from town had prayer meetings about twice a week in the evenings. This was’ one of the last one- room school houses to close. and the children from the commun- ity are now bused to the “Pinecrest Memorial Elemen- tary School in Bloomfield. An auction sale was held after the school was closed, at which time Keith Aulthouse purchased the school and remodelled it into a comfortable one and a half story home. One of the interesting features of the home is the fact that the shelter for horses still remains. Mr. Haws resides there with his wife Cathy, and small daughter, Theresa. He would be pleased to hear from anyone who had purchased anything belonging to the school at the auction sale which was held after the school closed. Memories of Yesteryear by Willis Metcalfe ' HISTORIC FLIGHT _ Forty-51x years ago this summer, 1930, were very interested to hear that the BritishAdirvigible Râ€"100 was on its way from Cardington, England to St. Hubert‘s airport at Montreal. Little ~ d1d we realm: tltiiatgve would see the world’s largest dirigible soaring over ea 0 Point Traverse at the clo f ‘t i ‘ flight from England. se 0 l S epochial . Construction of the R-100 began at Howday En 1 ' . _ , g and in 1926. The Size was 700 feet in length and 130 feet in diameter. It cost more than $2,000,000 to build and was scrapped the next year after it made its histogic flight to Canada. /, ’ The R-100 had an uneventful crossing to Newfoundland and arrived there July 3lst. 1930. The airship had a bad trip up the Etf Lavgreiticeand hadhto barge its way through nasty storms e ore as ening to t e million dolla ' Airport. r mast at St. Hubert s It began its-flight over Ontario by Ottawa and ' ‘ . , the d ihlifught to Niagara Falls, August 10-11. Many people1 sagliig l S . . . vigSiblerliassmg over, but it was a cloudy dark night and little was Howard Lowery and friends at the Point P ' _ etre li hth saw the R-100 as it passed over Lake Ontario on f M02315: ' morning, August 11th, 1930. He reported sighting it at 114% :3; It was about Slx 'miles away and visible for more thanan The event was a topic of conversat'o many months. _ i n by young and old for On the afternoon ofJuly 30th 1958 we w . _ _ . _ , atched a U. . blimp. on its historic flight to the Arctic. Forced to retufn lifilty base in. Akron. _Ohio, after encountering head wind difficulti S near Kingston, it passed over Point Traverse and was followiffs Scalégtigrsitagio, Judging slow headway. The blimp had 1% a the north. oar w 0 were scheduled to do research work in Jack Clark and son Fred of Milford, were with me at the shore when the airship went over the lake at Point Traverse , i _ Trees will be memorial _ to late Willis Metcalfe As a memorial to the late and man one . . Willis Metcalfe, author and has invitegd frienliiqslstbhgitcalfe historian, his family is on Saturday, Sunda CD by planning a small forest .0“ Monday to lend a hagé and their property on Black River the planting of 2 ‘gith Bridge. hardwoods and 500 ever” 00 Mr. Metcalfe was a lover of - trees green trees and the family felt that 15 is this would be a fitting living Jgfigfigl that this memorial as well as a lasting suitably marked WI“ be .